Been a few days...

I have been busy the last few days and nights and haven't gotten the chance to come and update. I had a piece of paper where I was faithfully writing down what I had eaten, but said piece of paper has been eaten by my house or something...I cannot find it for the life of me! I slacked off a bit on eating lots and probably didn't eat enough in the past 3 days or so, but I have been very very good to myself and have stayed away from sweets and junk. I am proud and I feel really good about it. The hell-week-sugar-detox is over and I am not feeling like a slave to sugar anymore...that was the whole point of this so I am very glad I persevered.
Today's noshing:
Breakfast - Morning Medley hot cereal (rolled oats, rye flakes, barley flakes, flax seeds and sunflower seeds...SO yummy. 1.5kg bag at Costco for $8...yeah baby!) made with almond milk and topped with frozen raspberries. YUM! A 1/2 cup serving of this oatmeal has 9g of protein in it, and that's when it's just made with water. I've discovered that lots and lots of water (at least 2-3 big glasses) and protein in the morning are very important for me. The addition of those two things seems to make it a better day for me mood-wise. (I am so rolling my eyes at myself, too...I've known all this stuff for ages and given this advice to friends and relatives. Way to take your own advice there, Crystal lol)
Lunch - a romaine heart with a few Lundberg seaweed rice chips crumbled in and some caesar dressing. (Damn you Michelle...you've ruined me for life haha)
Afternoon snack - a Vel fruit and nut bar. Yes yes they are still technically processed food...but it's freakin seeds and nuts with a few raisins and apricots so they aren't all evil! Good fast protien that I can eat with one hand. all natural with no junk either, and very tasty! Again, good old Costco...a box of 24 cost me $14.
Dinner - sweet basil italian sausages served on spelt buns with mixed greens on the side.

I meant to make a lentil-kale-brown rice casserole for dinner, but the day got away from me and I wasnt prepared for it so we'll have it tomorrow for dinner.

I bought some diapers today! Squee! Yes, I am fully aware that I am *so* pathetic. Heh. I had been using the bumGenius 2.0 diapers at nighttime and out of the house with Indigo (they keep him dry and absorb more so he's not sitting in a wet fitted and I'm not changing him every 20 minutes) but my chunkalicious little boy started to pop the velcro tabs open with his rolls! Subsequently, I woke up in a pee puddle more than once recently and I decided I really hate that. Ick. Nothing like waking up to being pissed on. Lovely. So I sold them to a friend whose sister is having a baby, and today I bought myself 12 FuzziBunz pocket diapers. I had them with both Nova and Faeryn and loved them so I know there won't be any issues this time around as well. I got 4 white, 2 baby blue , 2 sage green, 2 butter yellow and 2 lavender . They are sitting all warm and fluffy in my dryer right now!
In other poop and pee news, ECing is going pretty well with Indigo. I have gotten fairly adept at catching pees and if I am on the ball and home all day I can go the entire day without using a single diaper! There are definetely misses and sometimes pee gets on the carpet (or me!), but for the most part it is not so bad. He's so funny...somehow he's associated the "pss" sound to mean STOP PEEING if he's not sitting on his little potty...that sure is a handy feature! I can't count how many times I have been sitting and he's started to pee and all i have to do is exclaim "oh!! pss!!" and he stops until I set him down on the potty. Works for me!

I really need to get cracking on the schoolwork...I have three courses that need to be finished by May 1 and one of them I haven't even started yet! Eek! It is feeling very overwhelming at the moment but I know that once I just get started it won't be so bad. I feel like I havent had time for school much in the last few weeks. Between the doula association dramatics (oy vey), family, house obligations, being on call for a client due on the 16th and a very needy friend who just left an abusive relationship, I feel like I am stretched awfully thin! This week can't possibly be more full than last week so I think I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Really, i just need to sit down and crack the books, but sometimes even that is hard to get motivated to do!

I got an invitation to a very good childhood friend's wedding yesterday. I am actually the maid of honour (am I a matron by default by having kids even if I'm not married?) and I really need to find an appropriate dress. Agh! I am so not a dress person. the colours I have to work with are butter yellow, lilac purple or spring green. nice. And by nice I mean SHIT. So not only do I need to find a dress that I like, is flattering to my body shape and easy to nurse in, I have to find one in Easter egg colours. Seeing as how I am such a girlie-girl and loooove dresses, I'm sure I will have no trouble at all finding something within that criteria (can you hear the sarcasm in my voice?).